Ah, yes, Mackinnon & Saunders. The best puppet-making company there is to mankind. They've made puppets for all the shows I used to watch in childhood - well, almost all. Some shows were traditionally animated, but it seems CGi is dominating children's TV these days, so...Rubbadubbers, Noddy, Brambly Hedge, Bob The Builder and more. To get a job at Mackinnon & Saunders is like getting your hands all red and raw during a job at Burger King - spending hours moulding and sculpting puppets for films and TV series, then putting a star on their door. Boy, would you be so excited to get a job at this place. Oh hey, they created puppets for Scream Street. Still doesn't sound satisfying to you? They made puppets for the film I'm watching now - Fantastic Mr Fox. Mum thinks the puppets are creepy, not me, I never get nightmares from watching this film, and neither will I from watching Frankenweenie too. Only fewer shows are made in stop motion, and we dread watching ANYTHING that is in CG, especially CG giant Paw Patrol. It would be much better if it were made in the same stop motion style as Bob The Builder, but sadly, you have to accept life as it is.
Every puppet they create is a marvel to see, from Bob's black bead eyes to....hey, who created Luke, Resus and Cleo? Mackinnon & Saunders or Factory Create? Nobody knows what animation studio gave birth to my favourite trio, but if you write to either, they'll tell you. But the downside is they create scary stuff. Once on their website I saw a hideous brown creature with punky black hair and scary eyes, and another time I saw a realistic angel with feathery wings. I would call it a subverted kids' show studio due to the fact they also produce scary stuff, but we feel proud of what they achieved through the years, from a waddling penguin that impersonates Shaun The Sheep to a racing car filled with slapstick humor. Yep, there's loads of it. Deal with it.
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